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Bruce’s Beach: A Case Study for Judicial Analytics Best Practices

Attorney at Work

The legal heirs of Charles and Willa Bruce were all set to receive the deed to Bruce’s Beach. They can find it themselves through a targeted search, one that points directly to the paragraph — to the sentence— that addresses the pertinent legal threshold, the key factor(s) influencing a specific judge’s decision-making process.

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LawProse Lesson #436: What is Law French?

Law Prose

Rather more expansively, the newly issued 12th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary (2024) defines it as “the corrupted form of the Norman French language that arose in England after William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 and that was used for several centuries as the primary language of the English legal system.”

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Gang enhancements, union protections, racially biased prosecutions, the Second Amendment, Michael Jackson, and more at the Supreme Court’s conference

At the Lectern

The petition asserts that Government Code section 3550 — providing, “A public employer shall not deter or discourage public employees or applicants to be public employees from becoming or remaining members of an employee organization” — violates free speech protections under the federal and state constitutions.